۞ ИСТОРИЯ ТУРКМЕНИСТАНА И ТУРКМЕН ۞

A BRIEF STUDY ON THE TOPIC ON ANCIENT LAYERS IN ENTHOGENESIS OF OUR PEOPLE When studying the ethnogenesis of any nation, historians ask themselves one of the main questions - whether the people being studied are of local (autochthonous) origin or whether alien tribes and peoples had a greater influence on their ethnogenesis. The question of the ethnogenesis of the Turkmens is no exception here, since the historians have been trying to unravel the origin of our people for at least a hundred years, although the issue of the genealogy of the Turkmens has in fact concerned historians for more than a century. Let us try to provide some evidence and facts of archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic and historical nature about the ancient strata in the ethnogenesis of Central Asian Turkmens who live in the territory of modern Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE TERRITORY OF TURKMENISTAN Famously , over the past few decades, archaeolo

The  Oghuz ,  Oguz  or  Ghuzz Turks  were western  Turkic people  who spoke the  Oghuz languages  from the  Common branch  of  Turkic language family . [1]  In the 8th century, they formed a  tribal confederation conventionally named the  Oghuz Yabgu State  in central Asia. The name  Oghuz  is a  Common Turkic   word for "tribe".  Byzantine  sources call the Oghuz the  Uzes  ( Οὐ ̑ ζοι ,  Ouzoi ). [2]  By the 10th century, Islamic sources were calling them Muslim  Turkmens , as opposed to shamanist or Buddhist. By the 12th century this term had passed into Byzantine usage and the Oghuzes were overwhelmingly Muslim. [3] The Oghuz confederation migrated westward from the  Jeti-su  area after a conflict with the Karluk branch of Uigurs. The founders of the  Ottoman Empire  were descendants of the Oghuzes. Today, a percentage of the residents of  Turkey ,  Azerbaijan  and  Turkmenistan  are descendants of Oghuz Turks and their language belongs to the  Oghuz  (also known